On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/18/2017 08:17 PM, Don Seiler wrote:
> I disagree with this. It isn't my company's business to test the
> Postgres software in development, as much as it would be needed and
> appreciated by the community.
Yeah, let others do it for you! Great attitude.
It's a realistic, practical attitude. I'm sorry that not every company wants to offer the resources to contribute back to the community as much as you want. But it's foolish to expect a company to perform their development lifecycle against betas and RCs. They have their own products to worry about. A gallant few may let their DBAs do some sandbox testing to contribute time back to the community, but you can't expect them to.
> I'm planning a mass upgrade to 9.6 soon as well and the question was raised
> as to whether or not to go right to 10.0, and I quickly put that down.
Right, because when you say "official release versus a beta or release
candidate", you don't actually mean it.
I don't even know what you mean here. You're responding like I ran over your dog and it's quite ridiculous.
Plain and simple, I wouldn't expect any DBA responsible for production databases to run on a new major release, regardless of platform/vendor. It's asking for a headache and maybe a few noisy pager nights. It doesn't matter how much faith I have in the Postgres contributors/developers, I have a responsibility to my employer to keep their database platforms up and running. That is first and foremost. I'm sure if I found myself with time to spare, I'll test upgrading a prod clone to 10 and asking some devs to run it through its paces, but spare time is a luxury that you can't just expect people to have.
Don Seiler
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